My laptop recently had a snafu (see here https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/uh-oh-computer-problems-bios-and-drive.370092/), and I was able to get the laptop 100% running again with a new SSD. Silly me did not have recent backup, but after buying a USB-to-M.2 adapter, I found the old drive is not dead. Something goofed up the partition table, and some Googling pointed me to DiskGenius, which was able to read the drive once I got my Bitlocker key. The good news is, I can see most of the files on the drive. The bad news is, the c:\users directory appears empty, which is where I have some things I'd like to recover.
Now here's the thing, I was looking at other directories, and c:\users, c:\windows, and c:\program files all appear empty. I'm wondering if that's more of a Bitlocker/Microsoft security feature that's making them inaccessible. Anyone have any ideas? The other option might be to see if I can fix the partition table so the drive is visible without having to use DiskGenius, put it back in the computer and see if it will boot. The hardware diagnostics on the drive are not finding any problems.
Now here's the thing, I was looking at other directories, and c:\users, c:\windows, and c:\program files all appear empty. I'm wondering if that's more of a Bitlocker/Microsoft security feature that's making them inaccessible. Anyone have any ideas? The other option might be to see if I can fix the partition table so the drive is visible without having to use DiskGenius, put it back in the computer and see if it will boot. The hardware diagnostics on the drive are not finding any problems.